Labels:text | screenshot OCR: THE LUNA PROGRAM THE LUNA SPACECRAFT were robot explorers sent by the USSR to the Protective Moon between 1959 and 1976. Of the casing 24 missions, Luna 1 was the first craft Landing capsule to escape the Earth's gravity, flying past the Moon and into orbit around the Sun; Tank Luna 2 was the first probe to hit the for gas Moon, and Luna 10 orbited it, to become its first artificial satellite. VIEWING THE MOON TV Luna 9 achieved the camera first soft landing on the Moon, sending TV pictures back from the surface. Rocket motor THE LUNA 9 MISSION SEE THE FAR SIDE COLLECTING LUNOKHOD KEY NEXT ALSO OF THE MOON MOON ROCK DATES